Diarsia dahlii
| Diarsia dahlii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Diarsia |
| Species: | D. dahlii |
| Binomial name | |
| Diarsia dahlii Hübner, 1813 | |
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The Barred Chestnut (Diarsia dahlii) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Europe, through the Palearctic East to the Kamchatka Peninsula, North China and Japan.
Description
- See glossary for terms used
The wingspan is 28–40 mm.Forewing reddish brown with an ochreous tint in the male, darker, purplish brown in female; lines plain in the paler males ; stigmata of the ground-colour, the reniform with the lower lobe dark, the upper sometimes ochreous ; claviform with a black dot at the tip ; a distinct dark median shade ; in the 2 the submarginal line is pale; hindwing dull fuscous, the fringe pinkish. A variable species occurring under different forms: ab. nana Stgr. from S. E. Siberia is a dwarf form, not much more than half aslarge as the typical insect.[1]
Biology
Adults are on wing from August to September depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Betula, Vaccinium myrtillus, Rumex and Plantago.[2]
Subspecies
- Diarsia dahlii dahlii (central and northern Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan)
- Diarsia dahlii nana (central Siberia to eastern Siberia, Northern China, Mongolia)
- Diarsia dahlii tibetica (southern China, Tibet)
References
- ↑ Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914
- ↑ "Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.".
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